Monday, April 25, 2011

Autumn & feather boas

Here it is, finally, for your viewing pleasure, the painted-in-colour sketch for 'Autumn'. (So, in my mind, apparently, autumn is blood-red and wine coloured [and pomegranates look rather like beets], while summer is black and orange and spring is bright yellow and green.) Still, on the whole I'm mostly pleased with these...I'll get to making 'good' drawings of summer at the very least (a bit of a mess) and perhaps others too (I used cheapo paper and it is quite buckled...not the best for a high-res scan even if I decide that the sketch IS acceptable- that's a big IF-) sometime soon. 'Winter' I might redo. I quite like the pose but the pseudo-crystalline formation? Ugh...not quite what I had in mind. Surely something better can be done with the idea. Well, in any case you'll see updates on this at some point in the near future.

What else? Well, I went to another burlesque-themed drawing session yesterday; here are a few sketches that are okay- no more, no less. Not a spectacular session for me but fun nonetheless...:

No, she did not have (or wear) wings....this was for one of the contests, which involves adding something to the drawing, usually. This one was- give her wings. Hence the wings.

Again, no...although props might not be out of the question, there was no giant bottle- it was another contest; this time the assignment was to give the drawing the appearance of a (presumably Art Nouveau!) poster or label. I didn't really give it much thought until the last few minutes and gave up on the idea quickly...I decided that this was NOT on its way to looking Art Nouveau in the least...

Here, more use of the ubiquitous BOA. Yes, I've officially had enough feather boa....I know, I know, I suppose that it's to be expected at these sessions, it's one of THE burlesque accoutrements, it's coy and flirty and sexy and all that....but I have found it very annoying the last couple of times I've encountered it. Here, and in the previous sketch, it isn't bad...but there always seem to be a couple of poses in which there seems to be very little to draw BUT the boa- which I don't find to be either terribly amusing or otherwise helpful to me drawing-practice-wise (I, for one, don't feel the urge to incorporate feather boas into my work very frequently). Ok, ok, enough about that. I'm sure that I'll see them again if I continue attending these drawing sessions, so I'll try to think positively about the whole thing. Perhaps drawing feather boas will turn out to be a highly useful skill at some point, for some reason that I am now unable to foresee.

1 comment:

I like the fall sketch, out of the 4 seasons it's the best imo. I actually like the way pomegrantes came out. That's coming from someone who had them growning in the back yard. Like the other sketches as well, bottle one is very good.